Tenants in Brooklyn 6 years have sought compensation after a fire

66-year-old Polina Bigraw still struggling with the consequences of a major fire that destroyed an apartment that her family rented in the district of Prospect Lefferts Gardens in 2012.

Pauline and her husband still have not received compensation from the owner of the house. Last week against the Kings & Queens Holdings, which owns the victim from the fire building at 665 New York Avenue, the couple filed a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit.

By the way, the company is only now beginning preliminary discussions with city officials about the construction of the new building, stating that the restoration of the old will cost more.

«In fact over the years they have not helped any tenant — outraged tenants attorney Steven Wagner. Now they are asking the city to help them.» According to Wagner, the house burned for 6 years came to utter desolation.

To get Kings & Queens Holdings to remedy numerous violations in the building and to compensate the customers rent for the uninhabitable apartment, as well as relocation expenses and other costs due to a fire on July 26, 2012, against the landlord was filed 3 complaints.

For its part the Vice-President of the Kings & Queens Holdings Joshua Eisenberg said that the company is struggling to help the tenants to find affordable housing, including offering preferential tariffs. And, according to Eisenberg, with the overwhelming majority of the 117 tenants, an agreement was reached.

Vice-President of the company believes that the site of the burned house it would be advisable to build a complex of 80 apartments with rents, which would be consistent with current rates in the market rented sector.

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